Cartridge-shell



(No Model.)

G. E. OVERBAUGH.-

CARTRIDGE SHELL.

No. 498,856. 'Patented June 6,1893.

UNITED STATES CHARLES E. OVERBAUGH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

PATENT OFFICE.

/oARTmoGE-SHELL- l;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,856, dated June 6,1893.

Application tiled February 16, 1892. Serial No. 421.778. (No nodel.) i

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. OVERBAUGH,

of Jersey City, county ofAI-Iudson, and State ot'V New Jersey, haveinvented a new and useful i Improvement in Cartridge Shells, Vof 'whichthe following is a speciication.

This invention relates to cartridge shells for breech loading guns andit is of the class having a paper, or similar body and a metal breech xoo'rhead and the invention consists in the construction and novelarrangement of thebreech and in the manner of attaching it to the body.I will describe a-cartridge shell embodying my invention and then pointout the novel features in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a longitudinal section of acartridge, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a section of a metal breechin its condition before being placed on the body portion. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal section of the body portion, as it appears before thebreech is attached thereto. Fig. 4 is a section showing a modiiiedconstruction. Fig. 5

- is an interior plan view of a breech. Fig. Gis' z5 an outer plan Viewthereof. Fig. 7 is asection of another modified form of breech. Fig. 8illustrates the breech shown in Fig. 7, as applied to the body.

Referring by letter to the drawings A des- ;o ignates the shell orbodyportion usually made of paper and suitably waterproofed if desired.B designates the breech which may be made of metal such as aluminium orbrass.

In each example of my improvement the metal breech is provided withannular jaws to engage the end of the body A.

In Fig. 2 the outer jaw b and the inner -jaw b are substantiallyparallel at all points of the inner surfaces.

Fig. l shows the breech B attached to the body A in the followingmanner. After inserting the end of the body portion between the jaws b bas shown the jaws are forced laterally toward each other by means of anysuitable tools engaging against the inner surface of the jaw b. Thiscompresses the material of the body and as the ends of the jaws joinedto the main portion of the breech cannot be pressed together shouldersWare formed which 5o engage an annular bead like end b3 of the i body Aso that the body cannot be easily detached fromthe breech.

` In the example shown in Fig. 4, the breech B is provided with theintegral outer jaw b, but the inner jaw is made separate therefrom and55 consists of a substantially cupQshaped metal piece C. Inthis examplethe piece C is provided with an outwardly extending annular bead c atits base -so that whenthe jaw b is pressed against the body material theend of 6o the body material will be forced into-an annular channel c'atthe base of the-jaw b, saidv 'channel being formed when the jaw ispressed In the example shown' in Fig.-7 the jaw-bl 65 has alongitudinally curved inner surfaces2 extending a short distance fromits junction with the breech B. The inner jaw b is like the jaw b' shownin Fig. 2L W hen the breech I shown in Fig. 7 is attached to the bodythe" inner jaw is forced outward or enlarged by a suitable tool so thatit assumes' the position shown in Fig.8 firmly grasping 4theend of thebody portion.

A shell or cartridge made in accordance with my improvement has all theadvantages of a metal shell but can be made much cheaper.V Its advantageover the ordinary paper shell is that its brech'can be made much thinnerand lighter, and the Adanger of pulling off the' head 4when extractingthe cartridge is very much decreased.

Having describedl myv invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent,

is 85 In a cartridge shell the combination of a paper body, and a nietalbreech portion having the integral jaws movable laterally one toward theother for compressinga portion of and permanently clamping the paperbody, 9o

,the said paper body -having an annular bead formed at its end to engagean annular shoulder of a jaw, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. OVERBAUGH.

Witnesses:

. ANTHONYl GEEF,

WM. A. POLLocK.

